Facebook Settles Federal Privacy Case

Will face 20 years of audits

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Facebook will now have to ask users for permission in order to change privacy settings.

You’ve seen the posts or groups started on Facebook to protest new security and privacy settings. Well now, the social network will have to ask for your permission before changing those security settings.

It’s part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The charges against Facebook stem from changes the site made to its privacy settings in 2009, that made parts of user profiles public by default. The FTC says that policy deceived consumers and forced many users to share more information than they intended.